おちる
Meanings
Verb (1-dan, intransitive)
1. to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money)
occ. 堕ちる for depravity and 墜ちる for a crash
2. to be omitted; to be missing
3. to decrease; to sink
4. to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.)
5. to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind
6. to become indecent (of a conversation)
7. to be ruined; to go under
8. to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list)
9. to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession
10. to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick)
11. to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee
12. to fall; to be defeated; to surrender
13. to come to (in the end); to end in
14. to fall (in love, asleep, etc.)
15. to swoon (judo)
16. to consent; to understand
17. to go down (of a website, server, etc.); to crash
18. to log out (of an online game, chat room, etc.); to drop out; to leave; to go offline
19. to die
of animals
20. to move to the depths
of fish when it gets cold
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (39 in total)
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in
to slip off
to trickle down
to slip down; to slide down; to glide down
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
to come out (e.g. hair); to fall out; to collapse (e.g. building, floor); to be left out; to be omitted
to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down
to peel off and fall; to flake away
to slide down (snow, etc.)
to fall asleep
to be burned down
to peel off
to fall in drops; to drip down; to trickle down
to drop like a rock (e.g. of reputation, power, influence); to go down the toilet
to flutter down
to be struck by lightning; to be yelled at (by someone of higher status); to be scolded harshly
to fall down with a "plop"
to fall in drops; to drip down; to trickle down
to fall in love
to fall into (someone's) hands; to fall under someone's control; to become someone's property (e.g. of an object)
to go to hell; to fall into hell; to be damned
to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag
to understand fully; to be convinced; to be satisfied
to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes
to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes
to slim down; to lose weight
to escape safely
to think something is delicious; to think something is scrumptious
to leak down; to be omitted; to be missing
to understand; to be satisfied; to be convinced
even monkeys fall from trees; anyone can make a mistake; pride comes before a fall; even Homer sometimes nods
to become overly logical; to be hairsplitting
to cease being possessed (by the spirit of a fox); to be released from the grasp of a fox; to be exorcised from a fox
to wake from a fever-induced delirium
to lose an argument despite being in the right; to have the right on one's side, yet succumb to another
Examples (103 in total)
I fell down the steps.
I'm afraid to fall.
The boy fell off the bed.